S1 E4: Polly the "Prostitute"

Bad Women: The Blackout Ripper

Pushkin Industries

History, True Crime

4.6 • 1.7K Ratings

🗓️ 12 October 2021

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

Standing over the corpse of Polly Nichols, police officers decided that in life she had been a prostitute. There's no evidence Polly ever sold sex, so why did the authorities reach this conclusion? And do the prejudices that warped the police hunt for the Ripper survive to this day?

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0:00.0	Pushkin
0:15.0	Jack the Ripper is closing in on Polly Nichols.
0:19.0	He stalks the streets of Whitechapel,
0:21.0	passing the same pubs, shops and dos houses at her.
0:26.0	Soon, the paths will cross.
0:29.0	A common prostitute, outselling sex,
0:32.0	will meet a monster driven to murder and mutilate walls.
0:39.0	When I embarked on my research,
0:41.0	this was the story I thought I would be telling.
0:44.0	But as I probed police history,
0:46.0	mining archives and scrutinising documents,
0:49.0	I found loose threads.
0:51.0	And the more I pulled at those threads,
0:53.0	the more the Jack the Ripper myth unraveled.
0:59.0	I'm Hallie Ribbethold.
1:03.0	You're listening to Bad Women,
1:06.0	the Ripper retold.
1:08.0	A series about the real lives of the women killed by Jack the Ripper,
1:13.0	and how we got their stories so wrong.
1:17.0	One side money plenty,
1:21.0	and friends too, by the score.
1:27.0	Then fortune smiled upon me,
	...

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